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International media studies

International Media Studies is a bold introduction to the field that focuses on a de-centering of media epistemology to represent a more thorough world-view. A comprehensive textbook exploring the current state of media studies as it is being practised across the world Takes discussions about media...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMillin, Divya C.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Subjects:
Communication, International.
Globalization.
Communication internationale.
Mondialisation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Massamedia.
Internationale communicatie.
Internationalisatie.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: Introduction
  • From International Communication to Media Globalization
  • Mapping the Book
  • 2: The Fixity of Nation in International Media Studies
  • The Modern Nation in All its Glory
  • The Legacy of the Modern Nation
  • Early Research in International Communication
  • The Critical Turn
  • 3: Connecting Structure and Culture in International Media Studies
  • The Culturalist and Structuralist Paradigms of Cultural Studies
  • Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies
  • The Postcolonial Approach to International Media Studies
  • 4: Reviving the Pure Nation Media as Postcolonial Savior
  • Defi ning the Third World
  • Mass Media as Extensions of Colonial Administrative Power
  • Mass Media as Nation Builders and Postcolonial Saviors
  • The Telenovela for National Development
  • Restoring the Female Nation
  • Rescuing the Brown Woman
  • Disciplining the Peasant and the Prostitute
  • 5: Competing Networks, Hybrid Identities
  • Star TV and Transnational Media Networks
  • Policing the Skies
  • Hybridity and the Globalization of Television Formats
  • 6: Grounding Theory Audiences and Subjective Agency
  • International Audience Studies
  • Contributions of Anthropology to International Media Studies
  • Postcolonial Interventions in Audience Research
  • Differences between Western and Non-Western Viewing Experiences
  • Agency, Subjectivity, and Subjective Agency
  • Audience Agency and Resistance
  • Limited Agency and Subjectivity
  • Theorizing Audience Agency and Limited Subjectivity
  • 7: Reconfi guring the Global in International Media Studies
  • Expanding International Media Studies to Non-"Hot Spots". Interrogating Notions of Fluidity of Audiences and Media
  • Moving Away from the Nation as a Unit of Analysis
  • Moving Away from the Centrality of Media within Society
  • Extending Analyses beyond a Critique of Cultural Imperialism
  • Historicizing International Media Studies
  • Engaging in Comparative Research
  • Relating Research to Activism
  • 8: The Politics of International Media Research
  • Negotiating the.
  • Complexities of Fieldwork within Academia
  • Negotiating Power in the Field
  • The Politics of Representing Ethnographic Research
  • Challenges to Activist Research
  • Criticisms of Critical Research
  • International Media and the Viability of the Nation-State
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Last Page.

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